Re: ebook reader market share report

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:50:55 +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote:

> You DO NOT need the Apple store to get free books onto Apple devices!
> All you need is iTunes and a sync.


That is not true, either. I abhor iTunes and never use it. You don't
need iTunes for anything at all, ever since iCloud came out in 2011.
You can just click any regular download link in the default browser to
get "free" e-books onto your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. They can be
EPUB, MOBI, or PDF. You can also email any e-books to yourself and
open them that way. Also, there are lots of apps for transferring files onto
iOS devices wirelessly, with no Internet connection necessary -- even
via Bluetooth.

Plus, many iOS e-reader apps include download engines right within
the app, some of them offering Project Gutenberg catalogues. One
such was my formerly preferred Stanza -- until the Marvin app was
released this month, which is even better than Stanza. Stanza and
Marvin are so superb in displaying e-books that it's actually worth
converting any MOBI books you might have, into EPUB, so that you
can enjoy them in Marvin/Stanza, instead of in the Kindle app which
offers a reading experience that is distinctly inferior to Marvin/Stanza.
(The same also applies to iBooks.)

-- 
Yours,
Alex.
www.aboq.org

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